Send crypto and a URL. Get the stats back.

One HTTP round trip, paid inline

x402 puts the dormant HTTP status code 402 Payment Required to work. Your client asks, we quote a price, your wallet signs, the data comes back. Libraries automate the whole loop.

Everything a scraper stack makes you do, deleted

The usual route to social media data is a scraper marketplace: create an account, add a credit card, buy credits, pick an actor, configure proxies, handle bans and retries, babysit the run. We deleted all of it. Our data infrastructure does the scraping-shaped work; you pay one cent per answer.

That makes this a practical Apify alternative for social stats: an Instagram scraper API, TikTok scraper API, and Twitter scraper API with no login, no proxies, and no account, because we run the infrastructure and you only buy the answer. Full comparisons: Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, and why there are no proxies in this picture.

From zero to live stats in two requests

There is nothing to sign up for. Call any paid endpoint, receive an HTTP 402 challenge, pay it with USDC on Base, get your data. The whole loop is two requests and libraries automate it.

1. See the 402 challenge with curl

A plain GET with no payment returns HTTP 402 Payment Required plus a machine readable offer in the accepts array:

curl -i "https://x402.findclout.com/api/v1/post?url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DLmR4kXtQ2a/"

HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "x402Version": 2,
  "error": "Payment required",
  "accepts": [
    {
      "scheme": "exact",
      "network": "eip155:8453",
      "maxAmountRequired": "10000",
      "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
      "payTo": "0xD5997d52769Fc6abd86B0E6d0f0e85F31F118bd8",
      "resource": "https://x402.findclout.com/api/v1/post",
      "description": "Social post stats lookup",
      "mimeType": "application/json",
      "maxTimeoutSeconds": 60
    }
  ]
}

maxAmountRequired: "10000" is 10000 atomic USDC units, which is exactly $0.01 since USDC has 6 decimals.

2. Pay automatically from Node with @x402/fetch

The @x402/fetch wrapper intercepts the 402, signs a USDC transfer authorization with your wallet, retries the request with the payment attached, and hands you the JSON. Your wallet needs USDC on Base. It does not need ETH: transfers use EIP-3009 authorizations, so gas is not your problem.

import { wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig } from "@x402/fetch";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const account = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.AGENT_PRIVATE_KEY);

const fetchWithPay = wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig(fetch, {
  schemes: [{ network: "eip155:8453", client: new ExactEvmScheme(account) }],
});

const res = await fetchWithPay(
  "https://x402.findclout.com/api/v1/post?url=" +
    encodeURIComponent("https://www.tiktok.com/@nflstreetmoments/video/7401882236711")
);

const stats = await res.json();
console.log(stats.views, stats.likes, stats.shares);

// Settlement receipt (transaction details) arrives in a response header:
console.log(res.headers.get("PAYMENT-RESPONSE"));

Endpoint reference

Five paid endpoints, each $0.01 per request. All are GET, all return JSON with the envelope {"success": true, "platform": "...", "fetchedAt": "<ISO 8601>", ...}. Numbers are integers or null when a platform does not expose a metric.

curl "https://x402.findclout.com/api/v1/post?url=https://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/1812340221459871" \
  -H "PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <handled by your x402 client>"

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "x",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-19T14:02:11.000Z",
  "url": "https://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/1812340221459871",
  "username": "AdamSchefter",
  "views": 4206113,
  "likes": 38914,
  "comments": 1204,
  "shares": 6821,
  "followers": 10914552
}

GET /api/v1/instagram/post?url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLmR4kXtQ2a/

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "instagram",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-19T14:03:27.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLmR4kXtQ2a/",
  "username": "houseofhighlights",
  "views": 2841903,
  "likes": 193412,
  "comments": 2874,
  "shares": 0
}

GET /api/v1/instagram/user?username=nba

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "instagram",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-19T14:04:41.000Z",
  "username": "nba",
  "fullName": "NBA",
  "followers": 89214553,
  "following": 1042,
  "posts": 51230,
  "isVerified": true,
  "isPrivate": false,
  "biography": "The official Instagram of the National Basketball Association.",
  "profilePicUrl": "https://x402.findclout.com/cdn/avatars/nba.jpg"
}

GET /api/v1/tiktok/post?url=https://www.tiktok.com/@nflstreetmoments/video/7401882236711

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-19T14:05:56.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nflstreetmoments/video/7401882236711",
  "username": "nflstreetmoments",
  "views": 4102338,
  "likes": 512004,
  "comments": 3912,
  "shares": 21480,
  "followers": 1306700
}

GET /api/v1/x/post?id=1812340221459871

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "x",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-19T14:07:02.000Z",
  "url": "https://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/1812340221459871",
  "username": "AdamSchefter",
  "views": 4206113,
  "likes": 38914,
  "comments": 1204,
  "shares": 6821,
  "followers": 10914552
}

YouTube

Coming soon. It will ship as /api/v1/youtube/post with the same envelope and the same $0.01 price. Watch the blog or check llms.txt for updates.

Free endpoints

Errors and when you get charged

The rule is simple: 4xx responses are never charged. Neither are 5xx responses. You only pay when we do the work.

How payment works: x402 in one minute

x402 is an open protocol that puts the long dormant HTTP status code 402 Payment Required to work. It lets a server price a single HTTP request and lets a client pay for it inline, with stablecoins, no account anywhere.

New to the protocol? Read What is x402? How AI agents pay for APIs over HTTP for the full walkthrough, or the agent wallet tutorial to get a paying agent running end to end.

Frequently asked questions